"cobbler sync" error on centos 7.2 cobbler 2.6.11

[benblunt]

generating /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Exception value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 870: ordinal not in range(128)
Exception Info:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 87, in run
rc = self._run(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 186, in runner
return self.remote.api.sync(self.options.get("verbose",False),logger=self.logger)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 779, in sync
return sync.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 132, in run
self.write_dhcp()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 218, in write_dhcp
self.dhcp.write_dhcp_file()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/modules/manage_isc.py", line 193, in write_dhcp_file
self.templar.render(template_data, metadata, self.settings_file, None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 116, in render
data_out = self.render_cheetah(raw_data, search_table, subject)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 201, in render_cheetah
t = Template(source=raw_data, searchList=[search_table], compilerSettings={'useStackFrame':False})
File "DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate.py", line 58, in init
File "_etc_cobbler_cheetah_macros.py", line 58, in init
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1259, in init
self._compile(source, file, compilerSettings=compilerSettings)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1553, in _compile
keepRefToGeneratedCode=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py", line 127, in compile
return Cheetah.Template.Template.compile(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 740, in compile
settings=(compilerSettings or {}))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py", line 1575, in init
source = unicode(source)

!!! TASK FAILED !!!

[Zine79210]

Hello,
seems like the problem come from the encoding of the 870th caracters from your dhcpd.conf...
Verify that your dhcpd.conf is ascii encoded (no accent) and try again.
I had the same issue with kickstart templates, and i got the job done replacing accent caracters.

Hope it will help you.
Regards.

[jmaas]

Is this still an issue? Did @Zine79210 suggestion help?

[jmaas]

Closing this issue, please let me know if the problem persists and you are able to supply the relevant artefacts so that we can reproduce.